Krivnya: Late/Upper Santonian, Bulgaria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris ? globata (Arnaud 1877)
see common names

Geography
Country:Bulgaria
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 26.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.1° North, 24.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shumen
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified sandy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fine-grained, distinctly bedded, irregularly cemented and calcareous quartz-sandstones. Organogenic detritic sandy limestones abounding in [various invertebrates] interbed the sandstones.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (NMNHS)
Metadata
Database number:157890
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-07-10 11:00:46 Last modified:2014-07-10 11:00:46
Access level:the public Released:2014-07-10 11:00:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

51903. V. Radulovic and N. Motchurova-Dekova. 2001. The rhynchonellide brachiopod Cyclothyris? globata (Arnaud, 1877) from the Santonian-Campanian of Pannonides, Carpatho-Balkanides and Dinarides (southeastern Europe). Geological Annals of the Balkan Peninsula 64:107-135 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]